Believe In Us (Servite Academy #3)

Chapter 29

Chapter

Twenty-Nine

BASS

S he’s locked herself away from me and it’s driving me out of my fucking mind.

It’s been nearly an hour and she is yet to come out. My patience level has dropped dangerously low and my mood is instantly worsening by the minute. I’ve had the fucking week from hell spending half of my time down in Pleasant Hills dealing with The Cobras. We offered them half a million dollars in product and they get to keep fifty percent of the profits they make. We gave Zeke six months to figure out where he’s going to set up production of the drugs, meanwhile they can continue dealing for my father and keep all the profits. It was the best he was going to get and he knew it.

I came here as soon as I could get away. At least Drake and Kai finally gave up on kicking me out realizing I’m not leaving here without her. They’ve even offered me a cold beer, although they sit across from me glaring at me like they wish I’ll spontaneously combust in flames. Well I might just be their lucky day if my girl doesn’t come out soon.

My girl.

She’s mine and I’ve decided I’m officially staking my claim, as if I hadn’t made it perfectly clear to her before. Now I will make sure it is known here, at the academy, everywhere. To her and everyone else who dares come between us, because I now have an added incentive. My instincts were correct. I know for a fact she’s pregnant. Hell I heard her loud hurls as she puked in the bathroom just moments ago, the whole neighborhood fucking heard. I suspected it before, I’d even go as far as saying I prayed for it to be true, but Jade’s managed to hide it pretty well.

However, there will be no more hiding from me. My girl is coming home with me today even if I have to carry her out of here kicking and screaming.

Though just as I’m about to stand and head back to the room for the fifteenth time to knock down the door with my bare hands, she appears. I’m frozen in place, absolutely stunned by how fucking gorgeous she looks. Her hair is down, wet, and freshly showered, her eyes big, round, and the clearest of greens, while her tight little body is wrapped up in a pair of black leggings and a white cropped shirt, and a strip of luscious skin peaks beneath her top.

She’s perfect and all fucking mine. I remain frozen in place as she approaches, slowly strutting toward me showing not a semblance of emotion. Her footsteps echo in the expanse of the room which remains frighteningly silent. My pulse drums in my ears, my veins pulse fiercely beneath my skin, the room becomes nothing but a shallow darkness, a blackhole threatening to suck me in if I break eye contact with her. She is all I see. My vision becomes more focused as she moves closer, stopping before me with an empty expression. I’m almost afraid she’s going to slap me or yell at me to get the fuck out when her hand reaches up to cup my face, caressing the raw, bruised skin under my left eye .

The second half of the week I spent with Stephan Silver and his associates down in Greenwich Falls, a coastal town about a five-hour drive south of Hillcrest Hills. He and his investors, some ridiculously wealthy up and coming politician Richard Carter, Kinsley’s father Thomas Carlyle, and Kane Dalton are planning to open another one of his beloved underground casinos along with an upscale brothel, courtesy of Dalton, in the basement of an old historic landmark that serves as a museum of sorts. We spent our time there bribing city officials and coercing other wealthy and political authorities to turn a blind eye to the debauchery that is to consume their town in the near future. It didn’t require much effort, simple lifetime VIP memberships to The Carter & The Carlyle , generously named after the egomaniac mayor of Greenwich Falls himself, Dick Carter, and phony bastard Thomas Carlyle.

This is all part of my dear father’s plan to unite his fortune with Carlyle, who owns a franchise of high end, luxury goods brands. In exchange Carlyle has offered my father his only daughter. Lucky for him my father has only eyes for his beloved Eliza. Unlucky for me, that means he’s planning on passing her down. The inheritance I never wanted. I swear they need to start handing out parent of the year trophies around here because we’ve got some winners.

Of course my father and Carlyle want Kinsley and I to run the casino after we graduate next month, since he’ll be busy running The Moxy and The Nova . I laughed, blatantly laughed in his face when he told me his pathetic plan. That explains the shiner. The first one came after delivering the news to my father about giving The Cobras six months to sign the deal we offered. Apparently six months is being generous. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about his timeline, figured I’d buy myself some time. Though I received this darling black eye as a consolation present for not fucking this deal up completely. Wait till he finds out not only did I nearly fuck up his drug deal, but I also won’t be running his pitiful business, or going anywhere near Kinsley.

Combine that with the impending news that I’ve impregnated my high school girlfriend, who might I add, is from the opposite side of the tracks and the bottom of the social pyramid, he just might have a fucking aneurysm. Well here’s to wishful thinking. As for Dalton, I think he was only there as some pathetic scare tactic to ensure I accept to go along with their little plan. At least I hope that’s all it was for, but after hearing Jade mention he had the nerve to speak to her face to face, and what he told me about selling her on the black market like one of his girls, I’m afraid he’s going to stick around just to taunt us.

I’m snapped out of my thoughts as Jade’s hot thumb gently slides right over the open gash under my eyebrow, making me wince at the sudden contact. The greenest eyes suddenly pool with tears as she sees the pain in my eyes, now mirrored in hers. The pain I feel having been away from her for so long, I can tell she feels it too as her breathing begins to falter. God I fucking missed her.

“Who hurt you?” she whispers, and it’s like the tension in the room has tripled as all eyes are watching us closely, waiting for the ultimate blow out that is sure to follow suit.

“No one of importance,” I mutter, reaching out to wrap my arms around her waist pulling her into me. I inhale a deep breath taking in her indulgent scent, coconut, cherry blossoms, and vanilla. She smells like a pastry shop, so deliciously mouthwatering, I need a taste. “I missed you.”

I kiss her softly on her lips and feel her body tense up when I do. I know it’s because of her reluctance to believe me. Jade has trust issues, loads of them, and they begin and end with the shit that went down with her brother and father growing up. They both treated her as if she meant nothing to them, leaving her alone and without anyone to rely on. She and Scar were all on their own, until they met the guys from their foster house who became the only male figures they trusted in the slightest. Then they came here and Ace managed to get under her sister's skin, by showing Scarlett that no matter what those who wanted to harm them threw at them, they would get through it together. Ace showed Scar he was there for her, he put her above everything and everyone, even his brothers, his own family.

That’s exactly what I need to prove will happen if Jade puts her trust in me, if she takes a chance, risking it all on what we could be together. Because fuck me if it won’t be fucking epic. I’ve never felt the way I feel about Jade before, not with anyone, surely not with Kinsley in the short time we were together. Even if she hadn’t cheated on me, there’s no way that relationship would have lasted longer than it did. I tolerated Kins, kept her around because she was easy, not to mention a decent fuck. But Jade, she’s a fucking siren. Every inch of her is pure ecstasy in its most natural form. I spend every goddamn moment of the day worrying about her, wondering when I’ll see her again, imagining the things I’ll do to her once we’re together. These last six days without her have been a fucking eternity, and I know for a fact I don’t want to spend another moment without her by my side.

“Can we talk?” I whisper against her temple, making sure she’s the only one who can hear my query. “Come to the house with me, we have a lot we need to figure out.” She nods, accepting that we can’t move forward until we lay everything out on the table. She’s ready, willing to talk to me, to confess what it is she’s been keeping from me. I feel like a kid who’s just been told he’s going to fucking Disney World, my heart beating so fast I’m afraid it’s going to pop out of my chest cavity.

I release my hold on her giving her the space to turn and face the audience that have been eagerly watching our exchange. The three of them stand speechless with solemn expressions across their faces unsure of how to react to what they’ve just witnessed. For once my fierce Little Wolf and I kept things calm and non-explosive. It’s a rarity but a true gem .

Jade steps toward Drake, reaching out to hug him, wrapping her arms around his neck. My fists tighten at my side at their exchange. “Thank you guys for letting me stay here,” she mumbles, her voice quivering as she tries to maintain her composure, “It means everything to me to know that you guys have my back, that you respect me enough to let me be here, no questions asked, no explanations. You’re my true friends, my brothers.”

Drake grabs her by the shoulders gazing into her eyes with one of the sincerest expressions I’ve ever seen on him, “Jade, we have a history. We understand the shit you’re going through better than anyone. We know what it’s like to feel alone, helpless, with no one and nowhere to turn to.”

“And we know how easily it is to push everyone away,” Kai adds, stepping toward the two of them and wrapping his arms around them. “It’s how we’re programmed. Made to believe that our problems are our own to struggle with,” he subtly turns, stealing a glance at Stella, “In doing so we push away the only ones who are capable of helping us the most. To those capable of aiding us in the fight against our demons.”

My cousin steps forward but manages to keep her distance, still reluctant to join in on the private moment between these old friends. It’s astounding to me how Stella’s managed to become part of this tight knit little group, who clearly isn’t very fond of outsiders, only having met them just over six months ago. The kids from the Grayson’s Foster House in Pleasant Hills, are much like my brothers and I, The Horsemen, united in that sense.

I guess that’s her superpower.

Stella is only a Silver in name. She is nothing like my father and I, nothing like her own father, my late uncle Seth. Even her poor mother Kiera was too weak to deal with the corruption my father and his twin brother were involved in. However, Stella is so much stronger than any of us, she’s kind, loyal, trustworthy. Everything anyone would aspire to be, to find in a friend, and I’m glad Jade has her .

“Stella, fuck I’m sorry for leaving. We can drop you off back at the dorms if you’d like,” Jade says, looking to me for approval and I nod in agreement. One pit stop along the way won’t be a problem.

A blush creeps along Stella’s face as she shakes her head in reluctance. “No it’s okay Jade, really I’ll just…”

“She can stay here if she likes or I can drop her off at the academy,” Kai blurts out, taking a step in her direction. I look between the two of them and notice a nervous expression creep over Stella’s face as Kai’s eyes roam over her from top to bottom. I recognize the look of lust that glazes over his eyes, I see it every day when I look at Jade, and I don’t fucking like it. I need to ask Jade what the fuck is up with these two because it’s not the first time I noticed it. I don’t like it one bit, and I definitely don’t like his closeness to my cousin.

“Let me just grab my things and we can go. I won’t be long.” With that Jade disappears back into the room leaving me alone with her three bodyguards, at least that's what it feels like as they all glare at me with their arms crossed over their chests.

“You fucking hurt her Silver, and I swear we will make sure you regret it,” Kai threatens, both Drake and he stand up straighter, scowling deeper, trying, and failing to intimidate me. They don’t know the kind of fucked up monsters I deal with on a daily basis. These two wannabe bad boys don’t scare me.

I can’t hold in my chuckle at their pathetic attempt at intimidation, “You heard her, she’s coming with me. So back the fuck off,” I groan, an animalistic growl reverberating through the room, coming from a deep, untamed place within me.

They both scoff, heading out of the room and toward the one Jade disappeared into leaving me alone in their small living room with my little cousin. Stella watches me carefully, with a scornful look I’ve never seen leave her gentile, round eyes. She looks pissed off, yet worried, furious yet anxious. It’s confusing as fuck but continues to further prove my theory. Stella called me. She is the one who told me I needed to get my ass back in town and come for my girl.

“They’re right you know,” she stutters, her voice shaky as she advances toward me. Leave it to Stella to be a nervous wreck when trying to intimidate. She’s definitely not a Silver, we were taught, ingrained with those tactics, hell we perfected them while still in the womb. “They’ll come for you, and they won’t be the only ones to do so if you fuck this up Bass.”

“Wow someone’s suddenly got a mouth on them, and a pair of balls to go along with it,” I joke, but apparently I’m the only one of us who finds it funny. “They can try Stella, but you know they won’t be able to get within five feet of me before I finish them.”

“What about Scarlett? What about me? Are you willing to take that chance and finish us?” she asks, and I know it’s only to prove a point. Which one? I have no fucking clue.

“I’m willing to step over anyone and everyone who stands in my way when it comes to Jade, dear little cousin. I’ve claimed her as mine and I will ensure she remains that way. I have no plans of ever letting her go.”

Stella’s gray eyes, the exact shade of mine, fill with ire as she scowls at me without remorse, her body shifting as she steps into me pushing at my chest. She’s tiny, shorter than Jade and frankly thinner too. Her auburn curls bounce making her look like the most intimidating mouse. “She not a property Sebastian, don’t you fucking get it? You will lose her if you think you can claim her, you will push her away if you think you can control her, and you sure as hell will forever regret it if you don’t value her. Jade’s a true gem. She’s fierce, loyal to a fault, but most of all she’s afraid. Her father, her brother, they’ve treated her like trash her whole life, like something that can be so easily discarded and forgotten. You want to keep her?” she asks, not expecting an answer but I nod nonetheless, “Then you need to cherish her. Trust her and show her she can trust you. Prove to her that you will always be by her side no matter the shit thrown in your way. ”

My little cousin, only a few months younger sure, but nonetheless she is, “When did you become so wise?” I mock, but again she doesn’t find it funny.

“Life Sebastian, life has been cruel to us, to all of us. You, me, Jade, all her friends, all of your friends. A group of teenagers with more trauma and issues than should be allowed, but I think that’s what pulls us all together, it’s what attracts us to each other. Misery loves company, and in our case, tragedy fuels our connections.”

I draw my brows in together not quite understanding her point. “Why are you telling me all of this Stella? Why the sudden change of heart? I’ve been gone a whole week, yet you only now call me and tell me to come down here, no explanation just…”

“She’s hurting,” she says, interrupting me, “She’s falling apart. I can sense it in her mannerisms, I can feel it in the air around her, I can see it in her eyes. She needs you now more than ever, more than she’s ever needed anyone, but I’m asking you this Bass? Is this real, are you willing to stick things out, to remain by her side no matter what? Because there will be challenges, her brother for one, that’s an open wound still and I’m not sure how easily it will heal. Then there’s Scar, I mean they need to fix whatever happened between them now because I can’t handle the hostility. Kinsley isn’t going anywhere, the bitch is like a virus infecting everything around her, and finally the biggest obstacle of all, my uncle Stephan. Your father won’t accept her, he’s too proud, too much of a classist and worried about keeping appearances and ensuring bloodlines remain pure .”

“I’ll deal with my father, with Wesley gone I’ve realized that his hold on me is only as strong as I allow it. In regard to Kinsley, she’s nothing but a leech that needs to be ripped off and discarded, she won’t be an issue. Scarlett is determined to make things right and they’re taking steps in that direction. It will happen soon. As for Roman, he is worthless. He’s betrayed her in one of the worst ways, nothing but a fucking cockroach that needs to be crushed. I’ll do anything to make sure he stays away from her and out of her life, out of our lives.”

“What if she wants him in it, what if she chooses to forgive him?”

“Do you know something you're not telling me Stella?” I ask, my anger making its long-awaited appearance.

She nervously looks away, “No, but circumstances change, certain situations make people rethink things. Things that didn’t matter before suddenly do, I’m just putting the possibility out there.”

She knows, Stella knows Jade is pregnant, it’s why she called me that has to be it. She’s being hella cryptic insinuating that extraneous circumstances change the way we view things. That can only mean with Jade being pregnant, she might want her brother, her only blood connection, near.

I don’t get to ask as we’re interrupted by Jade stepping out with Kai and Drake close on her tail.

“Everything okay out here?” Jade asks, slightly uneasy. Maybe she thinks Stella has told me about her condition .

“Just having a chat with my cousin, it’s been a while since we’ve seen each other and actually talked,” I say, wrapping my arm around Stella’s shoulder. I see Kai’s jaw twitch in response. The fucker wants her, that much is obvious, if even my nearness to her is affecting his mood.

“Well I’m ready,” Jade mutters, looking down at her feet. She’s nervous, my reckless, no shits given, badass girl is acting shy and anxious. For some reason that makes my heart skip a beat. I love this side of her, maybe even as much as her no fucks given attitude. She’s vulnerable, not weak. This is my chance to show her I’m here for her, I’ll be by her side through all of it.

Ten minutes. We drive for ten fucking minutes in silence. Deafening silence. I don’t push her, I act like the clueless bastard she thinks I am and pretend I don’t already know what’s eating at her. She nervously chews on her bottom lip, making my cock twitch in response as I tighten my grip on the steering wheel to suppress a guttural moan from escaping me. I need her to tell me, because although I’m almost certain it’s true, I need to hear it from her lips.

Her hands rub against her thighs, her fingers fiddling with the material of her leggings, anxiously pulling, and snapping the fabric. She’s crossed and uncrossed her legs twelve times in the last twelve minutes, shifted countless times, and loudly sighed for two minutes straight. It’s goddamn frustrating and I’ll admit I’m not the most patient of men. That’s it. I’m done waiting, if she won’t tell me herself then I’ll just have to get a confession out of her myself.

“Did you enjoy your Spring Break?” I ask, suddenly at a loss of words. How fucking pathetic did that just make me sound. Might as well have asked her what she thinks of the weather.

Her reaction gives away her thoughts as she turns to me, her eyebrows raising curiously. “So we are doing small talk now, I didn’t think that was our thing?” she asks coyly, the first smile I’ve seen today appearing over her perfect lips. She has this dimple right beside her left cheek, it’s barely noticeable but I can see it. It only appears when she’s genuinely smiling, just like she is now.

“Well it’s better than fifteen minutes of dead silence.” She nods agreeing with me as she turns away, facing out the window to her right. “If small talk isn’t it, then what is our thing Jade?”

“Sex,” she states bluntly, shrugging her shoulders but not meeting my gaze. I can’t help adjusting myself as I shift in my seat, my cock painfully aching in response, pressing against the zipper of my jeans.

“Fuck,” I murmur, elongating the word as it fades out in a hushed whisper .

“Hate sex, angry sex, hot sex, rough sex, slap me and wrap your hands around my neck and choke me sex.” The last one makes me nearly come on command as the words leave her lips. Fuck the things I want to do to her right now, they should be fucking illegal, maybe are in some parts of the world. Because all I can think about is tying her to my bed and fisting her tight little cunt until she can’t fucking walk. I want to shove my thick, hard cock into every hole, every goddamn opening, filling her with all of me. I want to choke her pretty little mouth with my dick, wrap my hands around the silky, smooth skin of her neck, and imprint the shape of my palms on her sweet, luscious ass, all the while she screams my name begging for more. Harder, faster, deeper.

I’m practically breaking a sweat as I sit here imagining everything that I’m going to do to her as soon as we arrive at the beach house, and she knows it too.

“You agree,” she states, shifting her body to me, as her hand slowly trails along my thigh, inching closer to where my dick is throbbing in its confinement under my jeans, begging to be released, to be held, to be tasted. Fuck . “I can sense it in the way your body tenses under my touch, I can see it in the lustful haze clouding those silver eyes I dream about. I can smell it in the air, this car reeks of arousal, yours,” she adds, running her left palm against my shaft. “Mine.” Her right hand trails her own thigh, settling between them, her middle finger rubbing back and forth against her pussy. Her arousal is evident in the way her voice turns breathy as she continues to slide her fingers back and forth.

I’m hypnotized not only by the feel of her hands on me, but by the way her mouth parts, her eyes closing as she brings herself to the edge with just her fingers over her leggings. I need her bare. I need to see her riding her own fingers to orgasm, imaging it’s my dick instead. “Hold on baby, give me three minutes. We’re almost there.”

She continues, quickening her pace, “Hurry baby, I can’t fuck, I need to Bass, fuck I need to,” her words die on her lips as her breathing becomes heavy. She’s so close, but I’m too fucking selfish, I need to watch her come apart. I pull over on the side of the road leading down to the beach, not able to make it all the way down to the garage. We’re less than a quarter of a mile away from the house, but that’s too goddamn far. I need my wild Little Wolf, now.

“Fuck Jade, pull down your leggings. I need to see you, show me what you need baby. Show me what I make you feel.” Her eyes open wide as she realizes the car is parked, but we’re not in the privacy of my garage.

“Here?” she asks, suddenly bashful. “Someone will see us.”

“I can’t wait baby, I need to come now, and I know you do too.” I lift my ass off the seat, unbuckling my jeans and tugging them down along with my boxers. My erection springs free, harder than it’s been in weeks. Her tongue comes out to lick her lips as her eyes remain focused on my dick. I wrap my hands around my shaft, rubbing back and forth, feeling my arousal grow more and more as she watches me. There is nothing more rewarding than the sight of her watching me as I come. My pre-come leaks from the tip of my head, dripping out like I’m a fucking teen going through puberty all over again.

“Bass,” she whimpers, as she watches me with awe-stricken eyes while her mouth hangs wide open.

“Join me baby, show me what I need to see.” She nods, doing just as I did, pulling her leggings and G-string down to her ankles. She leans back in her seat, her legs falling open and showing me the plumpest, pinkest, little pussy. God she’s fucking beautiful. I reach over and pull her seat back, her body falling back just as the seat does.

“Ahh,” she cries out, and I imagine it’s because I’ve made a point to run my fingers through her wet lips as I retreated back to my seat.

“God Bass, that felt so good,” she mumbles out of breath. Her voice is silky and coated in desire, and it makes my cock that much more aroused. God I’m going to fucking explode.

“I know baby but right now I need to see you touch yourself. I want you to show me what you did all week while I wasn’t with you. Show me how you brought yourself to orgasm with your own fingers imaging it was my thick, veiny cock.”

“I had some help,” she whimpers, and I instantly tense at the thought of someone else touching her.

“What the fuck?” I shout, and she starts to chuckle. She’s laughing, fucking laughing. “What the hell is so funny? I swear to Jade, if Walker, or Drake, or fucking Malachi Saint laid a hand on you I’ll murder them.” But her laughing only intensifies.

“Calm the fuck down, it wasn’t them, but you do know him. You two are quite familiar with one another,” she adds, going back to running her fingers through her folds. She closes her eyes as she continues to play with her pussy and now all I can fucking think about is another prick with his hands on her.

Okay now I’m fuming. “Tell me you’re fucking joking Jade. Tell me this is some sick attempt at making me jealous or some bullshit.”

Her laughter stops as she opens her eyes and looks directly at me, shoving two fingers into her pussy as she does. All humor has disappeared from her gaze, “My turquoise BOB, battery operated boyfriend. You remember him right?”

Fuck me.

“Fuck Jade, you made me turn into a fucking psychopath, the way I just imagined I was going to murder the fucker who touched you.” This only makes her laugh harder, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever heard. She’s never this way with me, always on edge or ready to fight back at whatever I say. This is a carefree and comfortable Jade, and that only reminds me of why we’re here in the first place.

Fuck. All this teasing and shit made me forget about what I needed to find out .

“Jade,” I murmur, and immediately she notices the change in my tone of voice as a sudden wave of fear flashes in her eyes.

“Don’t Sebastian, don’t ruin this by talking about feelings and all of a sudden caring. We have a good thing going here, the sex is fucking incredible don’t fuck shit up by asking questions you have no right to ask.”

“No fucking right!” I shout out, running my hand through my hair. I can’t believe this shit. We’re both sitting here naked from the waist down, but the mood has definitely shifted. No more looks of arousal, no more aching need to be inside of her, now all I feel is uncontrollable rage. “Don’t act like you even for a second know what I feel for you Jade.”

She removes her fingers, placing her hands on her hips as she sits up to face me, but all I see is her bare pussy still on display. “Don’t act like you feel anything other than lust for me and I won’t.”

I’m done waiting. I’m fucking tired of giving her the time and space to figure this all out on her own. I’m so fucking done with letting her be the one to make a decision that affects both of us. She doesn’t want to come out and outright admit to me that she’s pregnant, well then I’ll just have to confess what I already know.

“I know Jade, you don’t have to hide it from me or make me think I’m fucking crazy. I know, I’ve accepted it and it’s about damn time you admit it to yourself too.”

A stunned expression takes over the anger and frustration that was just written all over her face. Fear, panic, uncertainty. It’s all there in the bright green of her irises.

“What the hell are you talking about Sebastian?” she mumbles, afraid of my response. She wants to know but at the same time once I admit it, she won’t be able to take it back. In that moment, this will be real.

“I mean, I know you’re pregnant with our baby.”